It was a second alarm fire, due to smoke showing from the building. 

Apparently a UPS and connected batteries melted down, and sprinklers went off



On 12/11/2011 5:26 p.m., Matthew Poole wrote:
If it's only five appliances, it can't be very serious. That's the base response to a fire alarm in that area.
That said, smoke and water are their own kinds of damaging entirely independently of fire itself.
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Matthew Poole
"The difference between theory and practice is that practice is easier in theory than theory is in practice."

Joel van Velden <joel@tpnz.co.nz> wrote:
 Just heard of a fire in an Auckland datacentre.

 Does anyone know how severe?

 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10765546

 -Joel

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